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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just started teaching in FCPS.  We give minimal homework and only because they said we have to this year.  I have 90 minutes of planning time twice a week to get ready for 6 hours of teaching a day, plus all the ridiculous nonsense admin insists we do that does nothing but add work.  We haven't even started the year and I've barely slept all week, hardly had time to eat, and am already feeling like I'm going to either cry or throw up at the amount of work I am expected to do before Monday. I haven't seen my children or husband all week, and the year hasn't even started.  It's going to be a million times worse next week.

So no, I'm not sending a bunch of work home so you can feel good about it and it can add to my already enormous grading workload.  I'm at my limit.  Your kid doesn't need homework.  Studies show it doesn't even make any difference.[/quote]What grade do you teach?[/quote]

High school.  And yes, I also taught back before it was like this.  Before we had millions of meetings about nothing and when we actually had textbooks and were given a curriculum.  I have been given nothing, absolute zilch.  I have no textbook, no curriculum other than a vague list of SOL's in random order, no materials whatsoever, and classes with students that range from not speaking a word of English or having a severe disability to getting ready to go to college (all in the same class).  I have four classes and three different subjects and two different grade levels and three co-teachers I am expected to plan with every day (but we have no common planning time, which means after school and weekends).  Two of my co-teachers have never taught before in their lives and I am expected to teach them everything as well.  I'm still grateful to have them, but this is the fastest I've ever felt this exhausted and burnt out in all my 20 years of teaching.  I've been working twelve-hour days all week and then going home and working more, and now admin wants me to write every day's learning target on the board and they are going to come into my classroom and quiz random students to make sure they can tell them the learning target and also explain why they need to learn it.  I hope they don't ask one of the kids who doesn't speak English yet.

A lot of teachers just don't really care, and this is why.  Because it's nearly impossible to do a good job in these circumstances unless you work around the clock, and then it's still impossible, and it's probably just easier to spend days posting learning targets and making sure kids are ready for random admin quizzes than it is to actually teach something.  [/quote]

This is seriously concerning. For you and your students.  [/quote]

This is a common example. Teachers are exhausted by the 1st week.[/quote]

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